Samsung NEXT Ventures is an investment arm of Samsung NEXT, a multifaceted innovation group within Samsung Electronics dedicated to identifying new growth opportunities that will define the next decade. The firm prefers to invest in artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, health technology, infrastructure, and media technology sectors.

Samsung NEXT

Established in March of 2006, DFJ DragonFund was the joint venture between the internationally recognized venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and DragonVenture, which helped pioneer venture capital in China in the late 90’s. Since its inception, DFJ DragonFund managed two US Dollar funds “DFJ DragonFund I & DFJ DragonFund II” and one RMB fund. In 2014, the DFJ Global Network rebranded as the Draper Venture Network. With the launch of their 3rd US Dollar fund in 2016, DFJ DragonFund henceforward became known as DraperDragon. They are a sector agnostic early stage fund. They look for companies with innovative technologies and business models with market appeal in Silicon Valley and in China. With their unique depth of experience and knowledge, their team can add value and resources in a broad manner. They are headquartered in Silicon Valley and have management and consulting offices in Shanghai, China. As a member of the Draper Venture Network, They draw upon the substantial resources and capabilities developed over two decades of venture capital investing.

Draper Dragon

Jump Crypto is building a cryptocurrency infrastructure to help the blockchain and all things Web3 grow. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Jump Crypto

Vista is often the lead investor, and they typically co-invest with other firms in both early and follow-on rounds. They believe in forming strong syndicates as a means to bring the broadest set of resources and contacts to the companies in which they invest. They will usually take a board seat with their investment and establish strong working relationships with portfolio company management.  The team has the skill setsto provide relevant coaching on operational issues such as team building, strategy and sales and marketing.

Vista Ventures

Ribbit Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies. The firm invests globally in individuals and brands who are aiming to disrupt financial services.  The investment firm was founded in 2012 by Meyer Malka and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Ribbit Capital

DHVC is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. We invest in Enterprise, Consumer, FinTech, and Healthcare sectors. Our team brings together decades of combined experience in entrepreneurship, operations, investment, and research to serve our portfolio companies in growing and achieving success.

DHVC

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are a global force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

Goodwater Capital

Hanwha Corporation manufactures and sells explosives worldwide. The company offers industrial explosives; cladding and demolition materials; fireworks; explosive inflators; nitric acid, liquid ammonium nitrate, and ammonia; and blasting products. It also provides ballistic and cruise-type guided weapon systems; precision smart ammunitions; underwater sonar sensors, navigation devices, seekers, and laser target designators; small- and medium-sized unmanned systems; and more. In addition, the company trades oil products, plastic processed products, and inorganic chemicals; steel, nonferrous metals, and other raw materials; components for the machinery industry, welding facilities for shipbuilders, heavy equipment for construction sites, and vehicles; and paper products. Hanwha Corporation provides engineering and construction services for building, plant, and environment facilities, and others; operates athletic facilities, hotels, sports clubs, and department stores; develops, manages, and leases real estate properties; manages golf courses and resorts; manages deposits and installment savings; and offers shipping, leasing, asset management, and insurance agency and brokerage services. It also manufactures and trades machinery, petrochemicals, and synthetic resins; processes and distributes agricultural, livestock, and forest products; manufactures compounds, silicon ingots, bearings, and car parts; and generates solar energy. It is also involved in water treatment, pharmaceutical, environmental pollution, aquarium operation, incinerator, institutional foodservice and restaurant, packaging, forest development, reforestation, resources development, tourism, and catering businesses. Hanwha Corporation was formerly known as Korea Explosives Corp. and changed its name to Hanwha Corporation in March 1993. It was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Hanwha

WeMade Games is dedicated to serving gamers with a portfolio of entertaining, high-quality PC and Mobile games. Established in 2000, WeMade Entertainment Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ: 112040) is an international game developer publisher that has grown from a handful of passionate game pioneers to a group of over 1,000 game enthusiasts.  Starting with its first and hit title ''Legend of Mir 2'', which has garnered over 200 million online PC gamers internationally, WeMade Entertainment has continued to develop and service dozens of PC and Mobile based games for fun-loving gamers since its inception.

Wemade

IOSG Ventures is a pioneering crypto fund founded in 2017 that invests in the future of Web3. As a thesis-driven firm, we assist founders in developing community-driven protocols that are primed to transform the crypto landscape. Our portfolio comprises a wide range of innovative and high-potential investments, including ZKRU (Scroll, StarkWare, Arbitrum, zkSync), Security Auditing(Runtime Verification, Hexens), MEV (Flashbots, Blocknative), DeFi/NFT-Fi (1inch, MetaMask), FOG (Big Time, Illuvium), and a number of industry leaders including Arweave, Cosmos, Celestia, EigenLayer, Scroll, zkSync, Nil Foundation, and Mina, etc. We are passionate about investing in crypto-native paradigms that have the potential to transform the future of the industry, whether you’re building infra, middleware, security, gaming, or social platforms.

IOSG Ventures

Xoogler is a group of Google alumni that comes together to help each other in the startup ecosystem. It brings together current Googlers that are interested in helping ex-Google entrepreneurs. It consists of startup founders, early team members, angel investors, VCs, and mentors. Xoogler was founded in 2015.

Xoogler

HashKey Capital

Escape Velocity is a software and application development, systems integration and analytics service provides company.

Escape Velocity

VistaLab Technologies is a privately held company based in Brewster, New York, 55 miles north of New York City. They manufacture the extremely durable MLA pipette line with an unmatched lifetime warranty.

Vistalab Technologies

Web3 and FinTech. AGBuild is the investment arm of AlphaGrep, a global quantitative trading firm.

AGBuild

NewBuild.VC is an early-stage venture firm that invests in enterprise and supply chain-focused companies.

NewBuild Venture Capital

Wintermute’s mission is to enable, empower and advance the truly decentralized world for more transparent and efficient markets and products. We believe in a future that is decentralized and not controlled by few dominant players or ecosystems. We invest with the goal of building a world, where various trading platforms, chains, and products co-exist, enabling various use cases, competing on token designs, and ultimately solving for a diverse, decentralized future. As one of the largest players in DeFi, we support projects where we know we can be true value-adding, develop a partnership and help influence the positive outcome consistently, throughout bear or bull market cycles. We do not target large ownership stakes, decentralized ownership is an important prerequisite to transitioning to Web3. We invest flexibly from the ideation stage through to later stage growth funding and we adjust ticket sizes accordingly. We have ambitious price targets for our investments, meaning we are in for the long term.

Wintermute Ventures

MachineFi Lab

MachineFi Lab operates as a designer for IoT and blockchain technologies.

MachineFi Lab offers an infrastructure suite that includes an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) blockchain, a multi-chain crypto wallet, a blockchain bridge, an onboarding platform, and software development kits (SDKs) for developers to create applications and machine networks​​.

Bringing the benefits of blockchain to the enterprise

Enterprise Blockchain Solutions

MachineFi

MachineFi Lab offers an infrastructure suite that includes an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) blockchain, a multi-chain crypto wallet, a blockchain bridge, an onboarding platform, and software development kits (SDKs) for developers to create applications and machine networks​​.Key customers and partnershipsMachineFi has partnered with HealthBlocks for the application of the W3bstream framework for user interactions with intelligent wearable devices and machines. HealthBlocks is a Web3 health app that motivates users to lead healthier lifestyles by allowing them to earn rewards for healthy activities, such as sleep, exercise, and driving safely​.Funding and financialsThe company raised USD 10 million in seed funding in June 2022 at a USD 100 million valuation. The funding round was co-led by Samsung Next, Draper Dragon Fund, and Jump Crypto. The funds raised were utilized for enhancing the platform, scaling its workforce, and incubating new initiatives built on the platform.

BlockCypher is an enterprise company specializing in blockchain technology. The company’s cloud-based platform helps enterprises build blockchain applications with web APIs and callbacks. BlockCypher's APIs enable users to interact with multiple blockchains and retrieve data from blocks, receive notifications about unconfirmed transactions, and request multiple signature transactions​.In terms of product offerings, BlockCypher's primary service is its cloud-based platform. The platform's design is blockchain-universal, enabling its compatibility with any blockchain. This versatility permits BlockCypher to support numerous enterprise scenarios, including supply chain oversight, financial transactions, and record maintenance.Key customers and partnershipsBlockCypher and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) partnered in June 2018 to showcase secure peer-to-peer energy transactions using the blockchain, forming the foundation for a distributed energy marketplace. This collaboration opens up new value streams for customers and utilities by reducing the need for a central arbitrator.

BlockCypher

Bloq's products are designed to accelerate blockchain development and deployment, catering to individual developers, startups, and enterprises. Focusing on enterprises, the company’s solutions are offered through the Bloq platform, which includes tools for exchanges, wallets, data and analytics, and custody providers.The company provides managed blockchain cloud services that consist of three primary services: Connect, Nodes, and Stake. Connect is a blockchain API service that accelerates the development of real-time connectivity to popular blockchain networks and access to additional blockchain data services. Nodes offers private, fully managed clusters of nodes to access popular public blockchain networks. Stake provides infrastructure and API endpoints to allow users to create validators and start staking, with support for Ethereum and Avalanche networks​​.Key customers and partnershipsThe company's timeline of innovation includes major milestones such as delivering Fidelity’s first bitcoin wallet in 2016, launching BloqLabs in 2017, and working with Citibank on a Universal Node for digital assets in 2018. In recent years, Bloq has launched BloqCloud, a managed node and API service. It also partnered with Lumerin project to tokenize hashpower and founded Atmos Labs to develop metaverse-native sports​​.Bloq’s key enterprise customers include Discover, Citigroup, Foxconn, Barclays, Fidelity, and Circle.

Bloq

Dragonchain offers a blockchain-based, language-agnostic enterprise solutions that includes a Learning Management System. Some of the solutions include 1) Lyceum, which provides traceable proof-of-course progress, completion, scoring, continuing education units, and certification, along with a GDPR- and CCPA-capable identity management platform; 2) Factor, which enables secure PII storage and streamlined authentication; and 3) A FinTech suite that supports regulatory compliance. Dragonchain’s products are quantum-safe and the proof of every transaction is secured to bitcoin, Ethereum, and other blockchain networks.In January 2020, Dragonchain was able to execute over 260 million transactions on a business system in just 24 hours. The test was run on 520 active nodes with a utilization rate of below 2%; it was estimated that at full capacity, the platform could execute approximately 13 billion transactions.The company’s solutions can be used across a range of industries, including healthcare, FinTech, government, and supply chain management. Most use cases focus on using the platform for information gathering and management, with a priority on accurate and real-time information availability.Key customers and partnershipsThe company has worked with a range of customers including Snohomish County in the US, Beaxy, Knowledge Perk, and SafePass.

Dragonchain

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 BlockApps is a leading provider of blockchain solutions that helps businesses enhance transparency and trust in their transactions. BlockApps' key product, STRATO, is a BaaS platform compatible with Ethereum, which is designed for business network transactions and activities, adhering to the standards of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA). It can be deployed on multiple cloud providers, integrated with various systems, and is configurable for a range of business activities. It is primarily used for building business networks with a focus on enhancing security, performance, trust, and transparency. STRATO's capabilities include tokenizing real-world assets, incorporating transparency data, and creating value chain incentives. It offers a suite of features including data privacy controls, network governance, scalability, APIs for third-party integration, audit and reporting tools, data migration facilities, identity management using existing enterprise sign-on systems, consensus mechanisms, developer tools, application portability, and the ability to use existing enterprise data models.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In 2016, BlockApps collaborated with ConsenSys and BHP Billiton to deploy its first production application. In the same year, it built enterprise Proof of Concepts (POCs) with John Hancock and Upgraded (now Ticketmaster).&nbsp;
 
 
 BlockApps announced an initiative with ARC, United Airlines, and Blockskye in 2018 and also launched the STRATO platform on all major cloud providers by partnering with Google and Amazon Web Services.&nbsp;
 
 
 In September 2021, it launched TraceCarbon, a CO2 ecosystem management application, supporting sustainability traceability.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In April 2022, BlockApps raised USD 41 million in funding through a round led by Liberty City Ventures. The company intended to use the funding to enhance its go-to-market strategy, expand its team, help businesses expand in its blockchain ecosystem, and bring more real assets to the STRATO platform.&nbsp;
 
 
 
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BlockApps

Cryptowerk is an enterprise blockchain company that offers blockchain-as-a-service, allowing organizations to create a tamper-proof chain of custody for their digital assets and enabling them to prove authenticity at scale​​. Cryptowerk's solutions are used in multiple industries, including aerospace and defense, automotive, pharmaceuticals, software, and utilities​​.The company's primary product is Cryptowerk HORIZON. This software creates tamper-proof records of digital assets that can be sealed in public or private blockchains up to one million times per second. These digital "fingerprints" can then be compared to the original data to verify authenticity. Cryptowerk HORIZON is offered as a REST API. The product is available for cloud-based deployment and supports various organizations including midsize businesses, small businesses, enterprises, freelancers, nonprofits, and government entities​​.

Cryptowerk

Companies that offer blockchain-based solutions that enable users and companies to track price, date, location, quality, and other relevant information for supply chain management

Companies and protocols that leverage blockchain technology to act as content delivery networks (CDNs) or provide content sharing solutions

Companies that leverage blockchain technology to offer databases, query services and data sharing

Companies that offer blockchain-enabled Internet-of-Things (IoT) development platforms for building networks and transferring IoT device data

Companies that leverage blockchain to protect and manage digital intellectual property (IP) rights

Companies that leverage blockchain technology to provide cybersecurity and identity management solutions for enterprises

Companies and protocols that offer industry and context specific blockchain-based solutions for enterprise applications

The blockchain-as-a-service segment operates under a B2B SaaS model

Companies offering blockchain-enabled tools to build IoT networks/supply chain traceability solutions for smart factories

Includes companies that offer blockchain-enabled tools to build IoT networks and transfer IoT device data

All companies within this industry are either blockchain-based platforms or offer blockchain-centric services

MachineFi

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